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Preprints

  1. Bianca De Sanctis, Nicholas B. Dragone, Ciara Wanket, Clifton P. Bueno de Mesquita, Sarah Crump, Gavin Piccione, Berkhashni Nirula, Halle Bender, Russell Corbett-Detig, E. Troy Rasbury, Graham Edwards, Abigale Hawthorn, John J. Welch, Alexandra Rouillard, Beth Shapiro, Jill Mikucki, Terrence Blackburn. Ancient metagenomics reveals subglacial microbiomes driven by oxygen availability. Preprint available here: doi: 10.64898/2025.12.03.692186
  2. Ruairidh Macleod, Frederik Seersholm, Bianca De Sanctis, Angela Lieverse, Adrian Timpson, Jesper T. Stenderup, Charleen Gaunitz, Lasse Vinner, Rick Schulting, Olga Ivanovna Goriunova, Vladimir Ivanovich Bazaliiskii, Sergei V. Vasiliev, Erin Jessup, Yucheng Wang, Mark G. Thomas, Russell Corbett-Detig, Astrid K.N. Iversen, Andrzej W. Weber, Martin Sikora, Eske Willerslev. Lethal plague outbreaks in Hunter-Gatherers 5500 years ago. Preprint available here: doi: 10.1101/2024.11.13.623490

Publications

* joint first author

  1. Ciara Wanket, Scott Cocker, Bianca De Sanctis, Myra Oliveira, Jeffrey Bond, Britta J.L. Jensen, Duane G. Froese, Beth Shapiro. Continuity of eastern Beringian megafauna phylogenetic diversity following deposition of the Late Pleistocene Dawson tephra. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research. 2606444 (2026).
    doi: 10.1080/15230430.2025.2606444
  2. Bianca De Sanctis, Cade Mirchandani, Haoran Dong, Ruairidh Macleod, Russ Corbett-Detig, Yucheng Wang. Bamdam: a post-mapping authentication toolkit for ancient metagenomics. Genome Biology 26, 413 (2025).
    doi: 10.1186/s13059-025-03879-x
  3. Sara Rahiminejad, Bianca De Sanctis, Pavel Pevzner, Arcady Mushegian. Estimating the minimal genome size in yeast using synthetic lethality data. mSphere e0013924 (2024).
    doi: 10.1128/msphere.00139-24
  4. Hilde Schneemann, Bianca De Sanctis and John J. Welch. Fisher's geometric model as a tool to study speciation. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, a041442 (2024).
    doi: 10.1101/cshperspect.a041442
  5. Richard Durbin, Bianca De Sanctis, and Moritz Blumer. Rotate: A command-line program to rotate circular DNA sequences to start at a given position or string. Wellcome Open Research 8:401 (2023).
    https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.19568.1
  6. Bianca De Sanctis*, Hilde Schneemann*, John J. Welch. How does the mode of evolutionary divergence affect reproductive isolation? Peer Community Journal 3, no. e6 (2023).
    doi: 10.24072/pcjournal.226
  7. Kurt H. Kjær, Mikkel Winther Pedersen, Bianca De Sanctis, Binia De Cahsan, Thorfinn Korneliussen, Christian S. Michelsen, Karina K. Sand, Stanislav Jelavić, Anthony H. Ruter, Astrid M.Z. Bonde, Kristian K. Kjeldsen, Alexey S. Tesakov, Ian Snowball, John C. Gosse, Inger G. Alsos, Yucheng Wang, Christoph Dockter, Magnus Rasmussen, Morten E. Jørgensen, Birgitte Skadhauge, Ana Prohaska, Jeppe Å. Kristensen, Morten Bjerager, Morten E. Allentoft, Eric Coissac, PhyloNorway Consortium, Alexandra Rouillard, Alexandra Simakova, Antonio Fernandez-Guerra, Chris Bowler, Marc Macias-Fauria, Lasse Vinner, John J. Welch, Alan J. Hidy, Martin Sikora, Matthew J. Collins, Richard Durbin, Nicolaj K. Larsen and Eske Willerslev. A 2 Million year old ecosystem in North Greenland uncovered by Environmental DNA. Nature 612, 283–291 (2022).
    doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05453-y
    In the news (National Geographic):
    https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/2-million-year-old-dna-greenland-disovery-ancient
  8. Yucheng Wang, Ana Prohaska, Haoran Dong, Adriana Alberti, Inger Greve Alsos, David W. Beilman, Anders A. Bjørk, Jialu Cao, Anna A. Cherezova, Eric Coissac, Bianca De Sanctis, France Denoeud, Christoph Dockter, Richard Durbin, Mary E. Edwards, Neil R. Edwards, Julie Esdale, Grigory B. Fedorov, Antonio Fernandez-Guerra, Duane G. Froese, Galina Gusarova, James Haile, Philip B. Holden, Kristian K. Kjeldsen, Kurt H. Kjær, Thorfinn Sand Korneliussen, Youri Lammers, Nicolaj Krog Larsen, Ruairidh Macleod, Jan Mangerud, Hugh McColl, Marie Kristine Føreid Merkel, Daniel Money, Per Möller, David Nogués-Bravo, Ludovic Orlando, Hannah Lois Owens, Mikkel Winther Pedersen, Fernando Racimo, Carsten Rahbek, Jeffrey T. Rasic, Alexandra Rouillard, Anthony H. Ruter, Birgitte Skadhauge, John Inge Svendsen, Alexei Tikhonov, Lasse Vinner, Patrick Wincker, Yingchun Xing, Yubin Zhang, David J. Meltzer, and Eske Willerslev. Reply to: When did mammoths go extinct? Nature 612, E4–E6 (2022).
    doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05417-2
  9. Bianca De Sanctis, Daniel Money, Mikkel Winther Pedersen, and Richard Durbin. A Theoretical Analysis of Taxonomic Binning Accuracy. Molecular Ecology Resources 22(6), 2208-2219 (2022).
    doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.13608
  10. Rui Martiniano, Bianca De Sanctis, Pille Hallast, and Richard Durbin. Placing ancient DNA sequences into reference phylogenies. Molecular Biology and Evolution 39(2) (2022).
    doi: 10.1101/2020.12.19.423614
  11. Yucheng Wang, Mikkel Winther Pedersen, Inger Greve Alsos, Bianca De Sanctis, Fernando Racimo, Ana Prohaska, Eric Coissac, Hannah Lois Owens, Marie Kristine Føreid Merkel, Antonio Fernandez-Guerra, Alexandra Rouillard, Youri Lammers, Adriana Alberti, France Denoeud, Daniel Money, Anthony H. Ruter, Hugh McColl, Nicolaj Krog Larsen, Anna A. Cherezova, Mary E. Edwards, Grigory B. Fedorov, James Haile, Ludovic Orlando, Lasse Vinner, Thorfinn Sand Korneliussen, David W. Beilman, Anders A. Bjørk, Jialu Cao, Christoph Dockter, Julie Esdale, Galina Gusarova, Kristian K. Kjeldsen, Jan Mangerud, Jeffrey T. Rasic, Birgitte Skadhauge, John Inge Svendsen, Alexei Tikhonov, Patrick Wincker, Yingchun Xing, Yubin Zhang, Duane G. Froese, Carsten Rahbek, David Nogues Bravo, Philip B. Holden, Neil R. Edwards, Richard Durbin, David J. Meltzer, Kurt H. Kjær, Per Möller, and Eske Willerslev. Late Quaternary dynamics of Arctic biota from ancient environmental genomics. Nature 600, 86-92 (2022).
    doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-04016-x
    In the news (The Independent):
    https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/mammoth-extinction-humans-climate-hunting-b1942047.html
  12. Mikkel Winther Pedersen*, Bianca De Sanctis*, Nedda F. Saremi, Martin Sikora, Emily E. Puckett, Zhenquan Gu, Katherine L. Moon, Joshua D. Kapp, Lasse Vinner, Zaruhi Vardanyan, Ciprian F. Ardelaan, Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales, James A. Cahill, Peter D. Heintzman, Grant Zazula, Ross D.E. MacPhee, Beth Shapiro, Richard Durbin and Eske Willerslev. Environmental genomics of late Pleistocene Black Bears and Giant Short-Faced Bears. Current Biology 31(12), 2728-2736.e8 (2021).
    doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.04.027
    In the news (Science):
    https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/04/team-recovers-ancient-genomes-dirt-revealing-new-history-north-america-s-bears
  13. Hilde Schneemann*, Bianca De Sanctis*, Denis Roze, Nicolas Bierne, and John J. Welch. The geometry and genetics of hybridization. Evolution, 74: 2575-2590 (2020).
    doi: 10.1111/evo.14116
  14. Bianca De Sanctis, Ivan Krukov, and A.P. Jason de Koning. Allele Age Under Non-Classical Assumptions is Clarified by an Exact Computational Markov Chain Approach. Scientific Reports 7, 11869 (2017).
    doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-12239-0
  15. Ivan Krukov*, Bianca De Sanctis*, and A.P. Jason de Koning. Wright-Fisher Exact Solver (WFES): Scalable analysis of population genetic models without simulation or diffusion theory. Bioinformatics 33(9), 1416-1417 (2017).
    doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btw802
  16. German Luna Antonio Patiarroy, Samuel Reid, Bianca De Sanctis, and Vlad Gheorgiu. A Combinatorial Approach to Quantum Error Correcting Codes. Discrete Mathematics, Algorithms and Applications Vol. 6, No. 4 1450054 (2014).
    doi:10.1142/S1793830914500542